xvii, [1], 301 pages : 22 cm

Foreword / Henry G. Alsberg -- Fair afternoon / Ida Faye Sachs -- Three poems / Lionel Abel -- Panoram / Murray Godwin -- Excerpts from "The apple garths of Avalon" / Kenneth Rexroth -- The ethics of living Jim Crow / Richard Wright -- Hill-country wonders / Americana No. 2, recorded by C. S. Barnett -- Pan feinkuchen / Harry Granick -- San Francisco, November 1936 / Dorothy Van Ghent -- A Gullah story / Americana No. 2, recorded by Genevieve W. Chandler -- Lexington express / Fred Rothermell -- All are gay / Sterling Brown -- Heart's desire / Nathan Asch -- Twenty-one Negro spirituals / Americana No. 3, recorded by South Carolina Project workers, Effingham, South Carolina -- My father has it all figured out / Salvatore Attanasio -- Bumming in California / Eluad Luchell McDaniel -- Old Barham on democracy / Edwin Bjorkman -- Mutiny / Americana No. 4, recorded by Merle Colby and George F. Wilson -- Martha's vacation / Vardis Fisher -- Excepts from the suite " Anguish take the strong" / Lola Pergament -- Phrases of the people / Americana No. 5, recorded by Harris Dickson -- Man with the cracked derby / Jerre Mangione

Six Negro market songs of Harlem / Americana No. 6, recorded by Frank Byrd -- The straight night of Mr. McWebb / Donald Thompson -- Romances and corridos of New Mexico / Americana No. 7, recorded by Aurora Lucero White -- Three poems / Helen Neville -- Beedlebugs / J. S. Balch -- Seven Negro convict songs / Americana No. 8, recorded by John A. Lomax -- Mama, the man is standing there / Leon Dorais -- Thoughts on a tank of guppies / Elizabeth Cousins -- Sitwell improved Funnoiser / Travis Hoke -- Just for fun / Ivan Sandrof -- The preacher's song / Americana No.9, recorded by Maggie L. Leeper -- Contempt for rifles / Vincent McHugh -- Gertrude Stein and the solid world / Dorothy Van Ghent -- Autumnal / Robert E. Hayden -- Two poems / Harry Roskolenkier -- Canzone / Robert B. Hutchison -- Four traditional stories / Americana No. 10, recorded by J. C. W. Smith -- Four sonnets / A. T. Rosen -- Square dance calls / Americana No. 11, recorded by Maggie L. Leeper, Elva Collier -- A song of the moon / Claude McKay -- The end of the book / Jim Thompson -- Avdotia / Nahum Sabsay -- A legend passing / Margaret Lund -- Manhattan moods / Charlotte Wilder -- Phrases of the people / Americana No. 12, recorded by Mildred Thompson and Carol Graham -- Juggler's gold / Carl Wilhelmson -- Wind of change / Harry Kemp -- The legend of Sharon / Americana No. 13, recorded by Francis R. Cole -- A letter in these times : for Muriel Draper / Raymond E. F. Larsson -- Lookin' fer three fools [i.e, Looking for three fools] / Americana No. 14, recorded by Luther Clark

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